A former model has claimed in a CNN interview that she was groped by former President Donald Trump in the 1990s.

Stacey Williams says the incident occurred in 1993 after disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, whom she was dating at the time, took her to a meeting with Trump at Trump Tower in New York City.

“The moment he (Trump) stood in front of me, he pulled me into him, and his hands were just on me and wouldn’t come off,” Ms Williams told the broadcaster.

The Trump campaign has denied the claim, noting that the former model originally shared the story at an event called “Survivors for Kamala” in support of Trump’s rival, Democratic White House nominee Kamala Harris.

“These allegations, announced during a Harris Campaign call two weeks before the election, are unequivocally false,” Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.

“It is clear that this bogus story was created by the Harris campaign to distract from the deeply disturbing and newly uncovered allegations that the second ‘gentleman’, Doug Emhoff, violently beat his ex-girlfriend ‘.”

Doug Emhoff, Harris’ husband, was accused by an ex-girlfriend of beating her in 2012, the Daily Mail reports.

The BBC has not identified Emhoff’s reported ex-girlfriend, who has been granted anonymity by the Mail, nor confirmed the veracity of her claim.

Emhoff denied the accusation through a spokesperson. The Harris campaign did not respond to BBC requests for comment.

Ms. Williams said on CNN that Trump greeted her and that his hands were “on the side of my breasts, on my hips, back to my butt, back up… they were just on me the whole time,” as Epstein and the former president smiled and talked to each other.

She described it as “an out-of-body experience” and said she “froze.”

Shortly after the alleged incident, Williams said she had broken up with Epstein, who was arrested for sex crimes in 2019 and died by suicide while awaiting trial.

Several women have accused Trump of sexual assault since he announced his candidacy for president in 2016. He has repeatedly denied these claims.

In 2023, a civil jury found the Republican candidate for the White House liable for sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll, a writer.